The omnibus spending bill approved by the United States Congress last week, to fund the government until mid-2018, includes $20 million USD for subversion against Cuba and $600 million for border security with Mexico, which President Donald Trump plans to use to build a wall.

In the context of the celebrations for the anniversary of the expedition ''In Canoe from the Amazon to the Caribbean'' a reflection workshop was held with the assistance of Cubans who participated in that trip.

Three Cuban universities, two from the central provinces of Camagüey and Las Villas, and that of Havana, won the international prizes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2018 and the Ibero-American Association of Postgraduate Universities (AUIP), academic and diplomatic sources stated today.